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YouTube Captions and Text Overlays Persist Across Every Video Despite Being Disabled

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Summary

Viewers keep getting unwanted caption/text overlays burned across the middle of every YouTube video they play, even after explicitly turning off YouTube captions (and even disabling the OS-level live caption feature). The setting is simply not respected: the overlay reappears on every single video, obstructing the picture and forcing the user on a repeated hunt for a hidden culprit or workaround that does not exist. Users describe being unable to watch anything normally and having no diagnostic path — no per-video toggle, no persistent rule, no way to confirm whether a given change actually stuck. This is exactly the class of recurring, state-not-remembered caption problem that current YouTube settings fail to solve, and no lightweight tool gives users durable, cross-video control over which captions/text overlays appear. The pain is intense (viewing is effectively broken), recurring every session, and monetizable for anyone who watches video with subtitles on a regular basis — yet today users are left with ad-hoc guesswork instead of a reliable fix.

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    YouTube displays an unwanted oversized text/caption overlay even after captions are turned off, and the user cannot remove it.

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